Marion Lebègue began her musical studies on the clarinet, then graduated in opera singing from the Pôle Supérieur de Paris in 2015. She won first prizes at the Toulouse International Singing Competition, the Bellini Competition and the Marmande Competition in 2014, and was awarded third prize for opera and the contemporary music prize at the 2015 ARD International Music Competition in Munich.

She sings regularly in many opera houses: Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (Opéra de Limoges, Opéra de Rouen, Opéra d’Avignon), Carmen or Mercédès in Carmen (Capitole de Toulouse, Nice, Bregenz Festival), the title role in Gounod’s La Nonne sanglante (Opéra-Comique), Smeton in Anna Bolena (Opéra national de Bordeaux), Rosina in The Barber of Seville (Opéra de Toulon, Opéra de Reims), Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Manon (Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Opéra de Toulon), Rosette (Opéra-Comique and Opéra national de Bordeaux), the title role in Madame Favart (Opéra-Comique), Berta in The Barber of Seville, Annina in La traviata and Dorothée in Massenet’s Cendrillon (Opéra de Paris), Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (Philharmonie de Paris), Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust (Opéra de Saint-Étienne), Ježibaba in Rusalka (Opéra de Limoges), Pauline in The Queen of Spades (Opéra de Marseille and Opéra Grand Avignon), Hermione in Grétry’s Andromaque (Opéra de Saint-Étienne) and Mallika in Lakmé (Opéra Royal de Wallonie). She has sung Ligeti’s Aventures with the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt under Alain Altinoglu.

She recently sang Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust at the Estonian National Opera. This season she can be heard as Ježibaba in Rusalka (Opéra de Marseille and Opéra de Massy), as Uta in Reyer’s Sigurd, and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in Charpentier’s Louise.

Marion Lebègue has recorded Massenet’s Don César de Bazan with Les Frivolités Parisiennes for Naxos, as well as an album of songs by Antonio Santan, “Miroir de Femmes”, with pianist Kira Parfeevets.